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Pinehurst: The K.I.S.S. rule for budgeting — and “yard debris evaluation” ???????

Posted on May 15, 2013May 15, 2013 by Brant Clifton

      Judging from the lamestream media accounts, Pinehurst village manager Andy Wilkison is shocked — SHOCKED — that council members want a budget that is (1) less than

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Media, Moore County, Politics

Ritter replacing Kennedy on Moore County board of commissioners

Posted on May 15, 2013May 15, 2013 by Brant Clifton

The resignation of Moore County commissioner Craig Kennedy, a few weeks back, has added a little bit of drama to Moore County politics.   Kennedy, in 2010, came out of

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Moore County, Politics, Uncategorized

The NC House: Seems like Old Times

Posted on May 15, 2013May 15, 2013 by Brant Clifton

    Neil Simon had a pretty successful movie in the 70s by that name.   It’s too bad we’re not talking about a comedy classic here.  Deals being cut behind

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Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics, Republicans, Thom Tillis
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Digging a little deeper inside the faculty lounge at UNC

Posted on May 15, 2013May 15, 2013 by Brant Clifton

What’s that smell, you ask?  Why it’s the patchouli-and-granola Chapel Hill-Carrboro crowd  stinking up Jones Street and tying up police officers’ valuable time –– comparing themselves to MLK and protesting

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Media, Politics
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Congress (and some NC pols) helping the taxman sink his claws into the Internet

Posted on May 13, 2013 by Brant Clifton

    The Senate has passed something called “The Marketplace Fairness Act.” Sounds nice, doesn’t it?  Who doesn’t like making stuff FAIR? Our Democrat senator, Ms. Hagan, and our Republican

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Congress, Economy, Kay Hagan, Media, Politics

Kay Hagan, pro-business? SURE. (And I’m Bill Barber’s homey.)

Posted on May 12, 2013 by Brant Clifton

        McClatchy is carrying on with their effort to save US Senator Kay Hagan — affectionately known around these parts as Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) sock puppet —

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Congress, Kay Hagan, Media, Politics
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Drive-by state-run media, Dems bemoan “erosion of local control.” (Seriously. No foolin’.)

Posted on May 12, 2013 by Brant Clifton

      Yes, I had to do a double-take this morning after reading the lastest spin coming out of state-run media.  Granted, the newly-empowered GOP has not done the

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Congress, Economy, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics

US Senate 2014: Will she STAY or will she GO?

Posted on May 11, 2013 by Brant Clifton

      We got treated today  to YET another trial balloon from Renee Ellmers today about a possible run against incumbent Democrat senator Kay Hagan in November 2014. She

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Congress, Media, Moore County, Politics, Renee Ellmers, Republicans

MSNBC host to Renee Ellmers: “You and I are absolutely on the same page here.”

Posted on May 11, 2013 by Brant Clifton

  Wow.  That’s something you really don’t want to hear in reference to your REPUBLICAN Member of the US House.  The representative for North Carolina’s 2nd  U.S. House district was

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Congress, Media, Politics, Renee Ellmers, Republicans
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McClatchy crayonista fawns over “Big Boy” Barber’s performance art at NCGA

Posted on May 11, 2013 by Brant Clifton

            Attention Tea Partiers: McClatchy’s crayon corps says the aging former hippies, now suckling at the government teat from their tenured university positions, screaming and

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Economy, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics

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